Author Archives: Bill

I want to write about my plans for the week ahead. The trouble is that if I go into specific details of what is on the schedule and I then don’t accomplish the plan, I both look and feel a bit silly. I have some stuff planned, which I may or may not do, butContinue reading “1286 – The week ahead”

At one point today, I thought I wasn’t going to be able to follow my plans to visit Ron Lines, the Railway shop. But, in the end the change of plans worked to my advantage and the visit went ahead. The manager (owner?) and his assistant were very friendly and extremely helpful. After a briefContinue reading “1285 – The Railway shop visit”

Our visit to the Watercress line last week has once more inspired me to look at my non-existent model railway. At this stage I have a very rough idea of what I want to do, but only the most basic idea of how to do it. So tomorrow I’m going on a little adventure. There’sContinue reading “1284 – railways”

I got awakened last night, about 3AMish. It must have been a clap of thunder that did it. The lightning was quite strong, and I would time after each flash by counting the seconds, the claps of thunder were fairly consistently 4 – 8 seconds away. It went on for maybe half an hour toContinue reading “1283 – The Weather”

Yesterday I wrote a kind of almost reasonable post and clicked on publish. I think it was probably about an hour later I suddenly realised that I hadn’t put a photo in. So, todays post contains yesterday’s picture. I don’t know why that happened, it just did. I didn’t go for a walk this morning.Continue reading “1282 – Let’s have another go.”

Out for my morning walk, I’ve started taking photos of the shops that have closed down on the high street. I’m not entirely sure why I am doing this, I think it may be something to do with my thoughts on revitalising the high street. Not that I have any plans mind you. I’ve foundContinue reading “1281 – The New Bus Station”

These wheels and levers are typical of the signalling infrastructure for the old semaphore signals. I confess, I have always found them fascinating. When I’m at a railway station, more so on my own than when I’m with somebody, I like to walk the length of the platform. In the past I used to watchContinue reading “1280 – The railways”

During our day at the Watercress Line Gala event, we thoroughly enjoyed the train trip form Alresford to Alton. We broke the journey at Ropley, the main engineering depot. I talked a bit about our visit there. I mentionned an angry little train, as in the header picture. it’s the little engine Kilmersdon. Every soContinue reading “1279 – Angry Little Train”

Elayne found out a couple of days ago that the Heritage Railway The Watercress line was running a gala weekend. We thought we’d go. We went to Alresford, my thinking was that as a paid car park, it was likely to be less busy than any of the other stations on the line. As itContinue reading “1278 – The Watercress Line”

This shows a small cargo vessel, possibly a tanker passing P&O’s Britannia which is on its way to Stavanger. We were parked up down at GAFIRs having fish & chips, well actually sausage but you know what I mean. It was the first time in quite a while since we last did this. Partly becauseContinue reading “1277 – Ship-watching”